The Balpha-et Song

from Kids for President! by Dr. Fruit

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This is a mixed up alphabet song to make the point, among other things, that even something so seemingly "fixed" as the order of letters in the alphabet is actually an arbitrary thing that people made up. We can change it and learn it differently just as easily as we learned it the first time.

The melody was written by Mozart in 1781 or 1782:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Variations_on_%22Ah_vous_dirai-je,_Maman%22

lyrics

J Q B D Y F L H A O M S U I R N E W K P X Z V C T G.
Me with sing you won't time next.
JQBs my know I now.

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from Kids for President!, released July 18, 2012
Thanks to Jason Hitchcock for letting me borrow his nylon string guitar for this song!

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Dr. Fruit Durham, North Carolina

Intelligent kids' tunes that combine Dr. Fruit’s youthful passion for social change with playful attitudes towards gender, vegetables, and biology.

Dr. Fruit lives in Durham, NC with their dog, Mordecai.

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